Obama In Serious Trouble For What He Quietly Did To Mike Pence Before Election
Former President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security reportedly attempted to hack Indiana’s electoral system while Vice President Mike Pence was governor.
BizPac Review reported that between Nov. 1 and Dec. 16 of 2016, there were “at least 14,800 scans” of the state’s electoral system by the DHS.
Indiana had previously blocked Obama’s attempts to get the federal government involved in state and local elections. Thomas Vessely, the IT director for Indiana’s secretary of state, said that his officials “kindly declined [DHS] assistance” because they were “very comfortable in the work we were doing in monitoring our election system.”
This represents the second time controversy has cropped up around DHS dealings with state electoral systems. The first instance was early in 2016, when a DHS IP address was traced to 10 attempted intrusions in Georgia. DHS told The Hill that the action that led to the report of an attempted hack was in fact a routine attempt to access a Georgia database of licensed security personnel.
The Indiana story quickly went viral, with many calling for Obama to be held accountable for the actions of his DHS.
“Knew he was a criminal but will ever know how much he did! He needs to be charged for all his illegal actions!” one Mad World News reader commented on the site’s Facebook page.
“He should be in jail for fraud corruption treason and a traitor,” another added.
Meanwhile, Obama has been laying relatively low since leaving office — though he was spotted on Feb. 24 at a Broadway show with his daughter Malia.
Just after the lights went down at the start of a performance of Arthur Miller’s “The Price,” Obama and his daughter slipped into the show and sat down quietly without anyone noticing.
“Well, I actually didn’t know he was sitting in the row,” Laralyn Mowers, a Queens woman who sat in the same row as the former President, told the New York Times.
“I had a really bad day and it all just changed.”
Sources: Computer World, The Hill, BizPac Review, Mad World News/Facebook, New York Times / Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons